Samsui women
Samsui women is the plural of Samsui woman.
Meaning of Samsui woman
Noun
Samsui woman (plural Samsui women)
- A Chinese female immigrant who came to Malaya or Singapore between the 1920s and 1940s in search of construction or industrial work, mostly from the Sanshui district of modern-day Guangdong in China.
- It’s believed that between 1934 and 1938 close to 200,000 of these women arrived in Singapore and Malaya. One group that stood out from the throng were those women who hailed from Guangdong’s Samsui county (in Mandarin Sanshui, literally ‘three rivers’). The image that Samsui women presented, with...2009, Mark R. Frost, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, “A Woman's World”, in Ibrahim Tahir, editor, Singapore: A Biography, Singapore: Editions Didier Millet Pte Ltd; National Museum of Singapore, →ISBN, →OCLC...
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- What is Samsui women the plural of?
- Samsui women is the plural of Samsui woman.
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